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San Francisco median home prices hit a record $1.76 million in May 2026, driven by concentrated wealth from AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. Over 600 OpenAI employees cashed out $6.6 billion in a tender offer, and…
Swedish AI startup Lovable is in talks to raise $300 million at a valuation between $13 billion and $13.2 billion, more than doubling its December valuation. The company, which lets users build apps by typing plain Engli…
Modal CTO Akshat Bubna argues that AI infrastructure must evolve from developer experience to agent experience, as agents require tighter feedback loops, sandboxes, and programmatic infra. Modal, which raised a $355M Ser…
Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable is in talks to raise $300 million at a $13.2 billion valuation, doubling its December valuation, with Menlo Ventures expected to lead the round. The company, which hit $500 million in …
Positron AI is in talks to raise $750 million across two funding rounds to challenge Nvidia's dominance in AI inference chips. The Reno-based startup claims its Atlas system delivers 3.5x better performance-per-watt than…
Bank of America reiterated its Buy rating on Nvidia stock with a $350 price target, calling it a compelling buying opportunity at a seven-year low valuation. Analyst Vivek Arya argued that the market has overcorrected on…
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5 on July 8, pricing it at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output, less than half the cost of comparable models from Anthropic and OpenAI. Elon Musk claimed the model is "roughly c…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is set to appear on CNBC on July 9, following the company's confidential S-1 filing with the SEC, signaling a potential IPO. The interview is also closely watched by traders of Worldcoin's WLD token…
Some Bitcoin miners are resisting the industry trend of converting facilities for AI workloads, arguing that the infrastructure requirements and long-term lease risks make the pivot less profitable than assumed. While pu…
OpenAI announced a livestream event for July 9, 2026, to unveil updates to its enterprise AI product line, ChatGPT Work, as the company's paid seats surpass 7 million. The event follows previous major product launches an…
AI and deep-tech startups raised over $500 million in the past 24 hours, led by quantum-computing firm Oratomic's $300 million Series A and AI-agent startup Prime Intellect's $130 million Series A at a $1 billion valuati…
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.5 ranked fourth on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, scoring 54 behind Fable 5, GPT-5.5, and Opus 4.8. The model showed strong cost efficiency at $0.31 per task and competitive coding-agent perfo…
Singapore virtual telcos Circles.Life and giga! are bundling unlimited access to premium AI chatbots into mobile plans starting at $8 and $13.90 per month, undercutting standalone AI subscriptions like ChatGPT Plus. The …
Manifund and its partners have launched four new AI safety funding opportunities, including a $1 million grant round, a microgrant program by Leo Gao, a creator fellowship called Frame, and an incubator called Surplus. T…
Anthropic's expansion into science tooling and drug discovery is raising enterprise competition concerns among clients who worry the AI vendor may become a competitor. The concerns, reported by BetaKit and STAT, center o…
SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5, its most intelligent AI model designed for coding and agentic tasks, trained on tens of thousands of Nvidia GB300 GPUs. The model is immediately available through Cursor, Grok Build, and the S…
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, its first AI model under the new brand, claiming superior efficiency and cost at $2 per million input tokens, but the model trails competitors on benchmarks and is linked to past controversies…
XAI rebranded to SpaceXAI after SpaceX's June IPO, releasing Grok 4.5 with claimed pricing of $2 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokens. Elon Musk stated the model is an "Opus-class model, but faster, more token…
Crypto venture firm Paradigm raised a $1.2 billion fourth fund to invest in AI, robotics, crypto, and other technologies, broadening its focus beyond digital assets. The firm, which has backed companies like Nous Researc…
Intel-backed AI chip startup SambaNova released third-party benchmarks showing its heterogeneous compute platform, combining Nvidia H200 GPUs and SambaNova SN50 RDUs, achieves 763 tokens per second on the MiniMax M2.7 mo…